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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a process for producing a shaped product of polyarylene thioether (hereinafter referred to as PATE) which is heat resistant and has a high elongation at break.
• PATE polyarylene thioether
• PATE for example polyparaphenylene thioether
• PATE polyparaphenylene thioether
• PATE is an engineering resin which has excellent physical properties such as heat-resistance, chemical resistance, flame resistance, moisture-resistance and rigidity. Most of these physical properties are, however, not manifested unless PATE is sufficiently crystallized. Accordingly, it is extremely important to increase the crystallization degree of shaped products of PATE. However, when a shaped product of PATE is sufficiently crystallized by heat treatment the elongation at break of the product is reduced sharply. Accordingly, there has been a problem that such a PATE is unsuitable for providing a heat-resistant coating for electric wires which coating should have not only good heat resistance but also a high elongation at break.
• the present invention provides a process for producing a shaped product which comprises (1) curing a substantially linear polyarylene thioether having repeating units of the formula Ar-S , wherein Ar represents an arylene group, as the main constituent and having a melt viscosity of 100 to 1500 Pas (1,000 to 15,000 poises) when measured at 310°C and a shearing rate of 200 second ⁇ 1, to convert it into a resin having a melt viscosity of 500 to 1600 Pas (5,000 to 16,000 poises), when measured at 310°C and a shearing rate of 200 second ⁇ 1, and a non-Newtonian coefficient, n, of 1.5 to 2.1, (2) melt extruding said resin, (3) taking off the extruded resin at a ratio R1 of taking-off speed to extruding speed of the melt extruded product of 10 to 1,000 and (4) crystallizing the taken-off material until its crystallization degree, when measured by the density methods, of the product reaches not less than 20wt%.
• the shaped product of PATE produced in accordance with the invention has a high elongation at break and high heat-resistance as a result of increasing its crystallization degree.
• the process of the present invention is preferably used to provide a coated electric wire having the shaped product of PATE as a coating layer for a core wire.
• a coated electric wire having the shaped product of PATE as a coating layer for a core wire.
• Such a wire is produced by melt extruding the resin in step (2) around an electrically conducting core wire to coat the wire with the resin.
• the basic resin which is the subject of the present invention comprises a PATE.
• the PATE used for curing of the present invention is a homopolymer or a copolymer having a repeating unit of the formula, Ar-S , as the main constituent.
• the PATE may contain a small amount of branched bonds or cross-linked bonds represented by provided that its specific property as the linear polymer is not spoiled.
• R represents an alkyl group or an alkoxy group, particularly, having carbon numbers of about 1 to 4.
• the Ar ⁇ there are the groups of etc.
• a phenylene group a paraphenylene group, is preferable.
• a paraphenylene thioether homopolymer and a phenylene thioether copolymer containing not less than 70 mol% of paraphenylene thioether units as the main constituent may be mentioned.
• a block copolymer is particularly preferable from the view point of heat-resistance and processability.
• a copolymer unit other than paraphenylene thioether, metaphenylene thioether unit, diphenylketone thioether unit, diphenylether thioether unit, biphenyl thioether unit, and 2,6-naphthalene thioether unit can be mentioned.
• a polymer containing a trifunctional unit can also be used as far as the linearity of the polymer is maintained.
• the block copolymer of paraphenylene thioether and metaphenylene thioether is particularly suitable.
• the block copolymer comprises a repeating unit of and a repeating unit of and as far as the formation of each block and the bonding of both blocks are possible
• the copolymer can be produced by any conventional method.
• the method disclosed in European Patent Application Laid-Open No. 166,451 (1987) can be used.
• a concrete method for producing such a block copolymer a method, wherein one of the blocks is formed first and then the other of the blocks is formed at the site of already formed block, therefore the formation and the bonding of blocks are realized simultaneously, can be mentioned.
• the PATE resin for the molded product of the present invention a material obtained by moderately curing the PATE not yet being cured, is preferable.
• curing is defined to be “a treatment to increase viscosity of the resin, involving an oxidation reaction”.
• a substantially linear polymer having the chemical structure disclosed above is preferable.
• the "substantially linear polymer” is not a polymer which is obtained by the increase of viscosity (curing) but a polymer obtained from a monomer substantially comprising a bifunctional monomer as the main body.
• a PATE which is substantially linear is the PATE having n value in the range of about 1 to 2 when obtained at a shearing rate of near 200 second ⁇ 1.
• PATE As a method of curing the basic resin, PATE, a method of heating PATE at a high temperature in the atmosphere containing oxygen and a method of treating PATE by using an oxidant such as H2O2 or a valcanization agent such as S, can be applied.
• an oxidant such as H2O2 or a valcanization agent such as S
• the former method the methods described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,793256 and 3,524,835, may be mentioned, and as an example of the latter method, the methods described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,948,865 and 3,699,087 may be mentioned. From the viewpoint of the simplicity of treatment and the physical properties of the cured PATE obtained, the former method is particularly preferable.
• melt viscosity, ⁇ *, of the PATE resin obtained by the above treatment is increased in the range of 5,000 to 16,000 poises, preferably in the range of 6,000 to 14,000 poises and the non-Newtonian coefficient, n, becomes in the range of 1.5 to 2.1, preferably in the range of 1.55 to 2.0.
• ⁇ * is below 5,000 poise, it is difficult to obtain a crystallized, molded product of a high elongation, and on the other hand, when ⁇ * is over 16,000 poises, the melt extruded material is apt to be broken at the time of taking off and accordingly, both cases are not preferable.
• n when the non-­Newtonian coefficient, n, is below 1,5, it is difficult to obtain a crystallized, molded product of a high elongation and on the other hand, when n is over 2.1, the melt extruded product is apt to be broken at the time of taking off and accordingly, both cases are not preferable, either.
• the value of n is supposed to represent the degree of cross-linking, branching and entanglement of molecular chains of a resin.
• the melt extrusion according to the present invention means the process comprising the steps of supplying the cured PATE resin to an extruder, heating the resin above its melting point and melting the resin and continuously extruding the molten resin through a die or a nozzle.
• R1 in the range of 10 to 1,000 and preferably, in particular, in the range of 20 to 500.
• the crystallization degree is a value calculated from the density of the material while measuring the density with a density gradient tube (calculated on the basis that the density of crystallized part of PATE is 1.43 and that of amorphous part is 1.32).
• the highly crystallizing treatment can be carried out, for instance, by a conventional thermally fixing method.
• a conventional thermally fixing method Namely, the molded product obtained by taking off at R1 of 10 to 1,000 is heated, under a limited deformation, at a temperature of not lower than its second transition temperature and below its melting point, more preferably in the temperature range of 130 to 280°C.
• the method of treating the molded product with an organic solvent Japanese Patent Application No. 61-12889 (1986)
• Japanese Patent Application No. 61-296,454 (1986) Japanese Patent Application No. 61-296,454 (1986)
• the both methods have been developed by the present inventors.
• One of the desirable utilization of the molded product of the present invention is its use as a coating layer of a coated electric wire.
• the method for producing the coated electric wire using a resinous material as a coating layer has been well known and the coated electric wire according to the present invention can be produced by any reasonable and optional method.
• the production method comprises the step of carrying out the melt extrusion of a resinous material for coating while arranging the conducting core wire to be covered by the extruded resin and in this method, the molding conditions according to the present invention are to be enforced.
• a crystallized material of the crystallization degree of not less than 20 wt% is preferred, more preferably not less than 25 wt%. Furthermore, it is preferable that the molded product according to the present invention is the material having an elongation of not less than 100%.
• the molded product of PATE resin which can satisfy the above conditions can be preferably used in the fields requiring a high elongation together with heat-­resistance, such as a coating layer of heat-resistant electric wires.
• the crystallized, molded products which are suitable for heat-resistant electric wire coating, industrial fibers, stampable sheets requiring heat-resistance together with a high elongation (the elongation even becomes not less than 100%), becomes easily obtainable.
• the molded product of PATE resin of the present invention can be used in various purposes such as heat-resistant electric wire coating, industrial fibers, stampable sheet, tray for oven, electric insulators, etc.
• the slurry was sieved through a 0.1 mm mesh screen and only the granular polymer was separated, washed with acetone and then with water to obtain a cleaned polymer. By drying the cleaned polymer at 80°C under a reduced pressure, Polymer A was obtained. The melt viscosity, ⁇ *, of Polymer A was 680 poises.
• the slurry was sieved through a 0.1 mm mesh screen and only the granular polymer was separated, washed with acetone and then with water to obtain a cleaned polymer. By drying the cleaned polymer at 80°C under a reduced pressure, Polymer B was obtained.
• the melt viscosity, ⁇ *, of Polymer B was 1,800 poises.
• the slurry was sieved through a 0.1 mm mesh screen and only the granular polymer was separated, washed with acetone and then with water to obtain a cleaned polymer. By drying the cleaned polymer at 80°C under a reduced pressure, Polymer C was obtained.
• the melt viscosity, ⁇ *, of Polymer C was 4,100 poises.
• the slurry was sieved through a 0.1 mm mesh screen and only the granular polymer was separated, washed with acetone and then with water to obtain a cleaned polymer. By drying the cleaned polymer at 80°C under a reduced pressure, Polymer D was obtained. The melt viscosity, ⁇ *, of Polymer D was 8,000 poises.
• the second step of polymerization was started. Namely, the temperature of the reaction mixture was maintained at 260°C for 30 minutes and then the reaction mixture was rapidly cooled and the temperature of the reaction mixture was adjusted to 248°C and maintained at the level for 4 hours.
• the push-up valve was immediately opened to take down all the reaction slurry into a take-down vessel. Substantially no polymer remained in the autoclave.
• the reaction slurry was taken from the take-down vessel and was separated into the polymer (granular) and the other components (salt-containing solvent) with a screen of 0.1 mm mesh.
• the separated polymer was washed with acetone and then with water repeatedly three times and was dried.
• the melt viscosity, ⁇ *, of the obtained Polymer E was 22,000 poises.
• a part of the respective Polymers A to E obtained by the polymerization was supplied to a shelf-staged drier of air circulating type, and was cured at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time period.
• the curing conditions are shown in Table 1 collectively.
• Each of the obtained PATE resins (code number: A to E1) was extruded at 310°C through a nozzle of 1.0 mm in nozzle diameter installed to the capirograph,and was wound up onto a winding bobbin while controlling R1.
• the string-like molded products which could be wound up without breaking were thermally fixed at 200°C for 2 hours while keeping them on the bobbins as wound and crystallized.
• the elongation at break of the thermally fixed string-like, molded products were measured by stretching their specimens with Tensilon (made by SHIMAZU SEISAKUSHO) under the conditions of a temperature of 23°C, a stretching speed of 100 m/minute and a length of the specimen of 100 mm. Further, crystallization degrees of these string-like, molded products were calculated from the densities (at 23°C) measured by using a density gradient tube of an aqueous 1% hydrochloric acid solution of zinc chloride.
• the PATE resin which could be wound up without breaking in the above examples was melt-extruded to coat a copper wire of 1.0 mm in diameter with an average thickness of coated layer of 40 ⁇ m with a small type extruder (20 mm in diameter) provided with a die-tip for wire-coating.
• the coated wire was taken off at a predetermined R1, rapidly cooled with water bath and wound up.
• the wound, coated wire was crystallized by heating the surface of the coating to about 180 to 190°C passing through an infrared heating room.

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